Every worker in the colony is capable of laying eggs - but, in a healthy colony, they don't.
Evidently pheromones from viable brood and/or an active queen keeps worker bees from laying eggs. If a colony loses its queen, and there is no viable brood from which to raise another queen, then the worker bees, no longer suppressed by pheromones, will begin laying eggs.
Laying workers, not having been raised into queens with royal jelly, and being unmated, lack the chromosomes required for the eggs they lay to become anything but drones - and thus, being unable to create another queen (or even workers), drones is all they will produce. A colony with nothing but drones is breathing its last breaths and ultimately dies as the drones take flight in a last effort to preserve the remnants of the hive's genetics.
It's a remarkably beautiful creation; but as far as I can tell, the reproductive nature of bees, complicated as is it, is not documented in the Bible. Instead we've evidently been left to observe and figure it out... with our minds, Created free.
Who is to say the Creator didn't naturally endow/encumber His Human creatures with a similar mechanism that becomes manifested when the hive loses its moral, Godly, non-temporal, focal structure?
What would it look like if a fallen human hive itself became the object of worship therein? Nebuchadnezzar's ( Nebuchadnezzar being the Luciferian fallen star of Isaiah 13) drones knew the answer to that - and the Old Testament names what they created as "Ba'al".
Same Ol' Delphinian manure, different municipal toilet.